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What are your rights when your flight is canceled or delayed?

Although you can ask for a full refund, you’ll probably want to keep working with your airline to get another flight. If you buy a new, last-minute ticket, it could cost more money than you’d get in your refund.

You could also find out if another carrier has seats and ask the first airline to endorse your ticket to that carrier. However, that’s unlikely to occur when hundreds of thousands of passengers are stranded.

On lodging, airlines provide it if a mechanical problem or something else they could have prevented occurs. However, if bad weather causes the delay, lodging isn’t provided.

If you’re delayed, keep working with your airlines to get booked on a flight that isn’t delayed. Refunds aren’t provided for delays. There’s an exception if you’re involuntarily bumped. You can get whichever is less; four times your ticket or $1,300.

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